Okay, so this originally was a one-shot but then i decided i wanted to continue it. another idea for it popped up in my head and i just have to use it. :)

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disclaimer? i don't own anything you recognize. please don't sue me!

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cookies?

shoot. now i want some cookies. nice going shard.

-PLEASE PAUSE WHILE AUTHOR LOOKS FOR COOKIES-

-jeopardy music plays, over and over again-

-10 minutes later-

:( i couldn't find any cookies. i bet my stupid sister probably ate them all.

anyway.

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ON WITH THE STORY!

i was seven and you were nine.

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The rest of the day went by quickly seeing as I kept thinking about the little exchange with part of the flock. Luckily for me, none of my teachers called on me to do anything like read from the book or answer any questions. If they would have, I would have had no clue what to do.

But, after getting off the bus, the school day was behind me. I just enjoyed my limited solitude on the short walk home. I pulled my hood up over my head even though it was kinda hot out.

Once I got home my dad opened the door. He was late, again. But, that always happens, it's not like I care.

"You're late." I said.

"You're early." my dad said.

I just rolled my eyes and walked past him to the living room, sitting my messenger bag on the love-seat. I sat in one of the chairs with wheels, spinning in it until my dad left. As I was spinning the hood of my jacket fell. Yes, I was still wearing my jacket.

When he finally left, I got on the computer as I always did and checked my email and my updates on the stuff I'm signed up for. My mom called saying they -my sister and my mom- were going to the stores for awhile and wouldn't be home until around 8 or 9.

Basically, it was just like any other day until...

CRASH!!!!!!!!

The sound came from upstairs so I walked slowly up the steps, grabbing a shoe on the way up. I reached the top of the steps and checked the bathroom first. The door was open so I could easily see inside of the small, green room. Nothing.

I looked down the hall into the front bedroom that was originally my mom and dad's, but, now they slept on the kitchen floor in the way of everything. Beats me why.

I didn't see anything in front of the dresser but I didn't go into the room, instead, I looked at my -and my sister's- bedroom door. I shakily reached toward the doorknob and stopped.

I walked down the hall and checked the front bedroom to see no one. I walked back down the hall to my sister's old room to see no one in the clean room. Huh. Who cleaned it? I shrugged and remembered the task at hand. Focus Shardae.

I then went back to my room and grabbed the door knob and pushed it open and dropped the shoe seeing the intruders. There was not one, nor two but six people in my room. They were at my house, in my flippin room.

The entire flock was in my bedroom and the window was shattered. So, I'm guessing that was the crash I heard.

They must have realized I came in the room because they stared at me, studying me. I looked at the two younger kids I hadn't seen earlier. So, it was obviously the Gasman and Angel. Angel tilted her head and stared at me, slipping her hand into Max' hand. She's probably wondering how I know who they are, unless the older flock members told her about me which I highly doubted. I'm not the important of a character being the quietest person in the entire school.

"Hi." Angel said, well, angelically.

"Umm. Hi." I said.

Something must have clicked in Nudge's head because she was said, "Hey! You're that girl from school we talked to earlier! OMG! How weird is that? That we just burst through your window, and we talked to your earlier. Oh and we're sorry about your window, we were just running from some M-Geeks and dove into the closest window!"

"Nudge!" Gazzy yelled.

"Sorry."

I chuckled inside my head. Nudge's head turned to my bookshelf that was filled with books, one in particular caught her eye: MAX, a Maximum Ride novel, then she looked slightly to the left to see the rest of the series. "OMG! MAX! IT'S YOUR BOOKS!"

Max looked at where Nudge was pointing and saw there was indeed her books sitting on the shelf.

"Do you have all of them?" Nudge asked.

I nodded.

"Can I look at them?" she asked.

I nodded again. She squealed and picked up the first one and turned to a random page. "I remember that! When you dumped the olive oil on that guy's head! That was funny!"

I suddenly felt bad. Max' books were kinda like her diaries or something. Where she told all her secrets and personal thoughts and feelings and stuff. I was beginning to realize why Max kept it a secret. She didn't want them to know. I inwardly sighed.

Angel looked up at me. Then I heard her voice in my head. Don't feel bad. Max is okay with it. She was planning on telling us about it and she was going to let us read the books if we wanted to.

Are you sure? I thought to her. I don't know, maybe I did, maybe I didn't. I'm kinda new to this whole mind-reading thing.

Yes, I am. And, it's okay, you'll get used to it. She 'said' giggling in my head. Huh?

What do you mean I'll get used to it? I asked. I was confused. A lot.

You'll see. She giggled in my head again. Erm...kay?

I glanced at Nudge to see her on the fifth book trying to pick a good enough page to read. "Go to page 84." I said. She and Max looked at me as if to say 'why' and I just said, "You'll see." mimicking Angel. Again, Angel giggled in my head.

Why that one? Angel asked.

Aren't you a mind-reader? I asked, not rudely, if I was asking it aloud I would have been smiling. Yet again, Angel's giggles rang inside my head.

Nudge quickly turned to page 84. Reading the first paragraph she glanced up at Max. "Are you talking about me?" Max glanced at the page and nodded. Max looked over at page 85 and blushed, probably because she realized what was on that page. Angel looked at me.

"OMG! Max! Fang! That was cute! I can't believe it! The ultimate make-out scene between two of the main characters!" Nudge squealed. Now Max' face was blushing like mad and Fang's face was impassive.

The Gasman muttered something to Iggy and he burst out laughing. Gazzy probably described Iggy the scene and Iggy was probably laughing at how Max' face must look.

How do you always know what we're is thinking? Angel asked. Now, it was my turn to look at Angel.

I've been in Max' books long enough to know what's going on in your heads. I replied. I still think the mind-reading thing is confusing.

Oh. Okay. Because I kept reading your mind and you always knew what was going on. For a second or two, I thought you were a mind-reader.

Nope, I'm just a normal 13 year old girl who has a weird obsession with the Maximum Ride books.

And...did you guess it? Angel giggled.

Nudge put the books back and looked at me, after her, so did the rest of the flock. Nudge then asked, "Why are you wearing a hoodie? And it's a black one, which attracts heat the most, or something like that, I think." I just shrugged in response and stuffed my hands in my pockets. I always wore a hoodie, and now that I think about it, I have no idea why. Maybe it has something to do with my being a nobody.

Angel gasped and looked at me. "You're not a nobody." I blinked and looked at her. "No no no, it's an inside joke. I'm a nobody and my friend is the lorax." I explained briefly.

"What's a lorax?" Gazzy asked.

"It's something Dr. Suess made up." They looked at me funny. "You know, famous author, wrote tons of children's books?" Again with the funny looks. "Rhymes in every book, every line?" No luck with removing the funny looks. "The Cat in the Hat?" Nothing. I sighed and looked at my sister's shelf looking for something Dr. Suess. And I found the lorax book. Perfect! I grabbed the book and showed them the cover. Something finally, finally clicked and I got a lot of "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs." The Gasman described the cover to Iggy, the latter nodded.

A/n I just fell out of my chair. Ha ha ha. Just thought you should know. Okay, back to the story.

"How is your friend the lorax?" Gazzy asked.

"It's a long story." I said.

"We've got nothing but time." Max said.

"Okay, but let me warn you, it's very long and kinda confusing"

They nodded and I started my story about Toni the Lorax and Shardae the Nobody.

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MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!

REVIEW OR THE FLOCK WILL COME AND TELL ZOMBIE ARI TO EAT YOU!

REVIEW OR I WILL KILL YOU AND ASK TONI THE LORAX TO HELP HIDE THE BODY!

i'm just kidding. i won' t kill you, just please, review. you don't understand how much i want a review.

oh and toni the lorax and shardae the nobody really exist. i am shardae the nobody and my friend's toni the lorax! yeah. anyway...

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~~shardae~~